Some of you may have heard of Thomas Midgley Jr. He was an American industrial chemist who developed both lead additives for petrol and CFCs for refrigeration. Both of which did what they were intend… (View Post)

What a pro. Especially that "quite" halfway through. Neither embracing or completely shunning Tommy R. Jenrick, Badenoch, Carswell go off the deep end, Farage stays one step back. I don… (View Post)

The thing that Nigel and (prime) Donald have/had mastery of is knowing where to stop. The shock jock art of knowing how to be outrageous, but not too outrageous. The right wing media space is littere… (View Post)

Presumably a graph of troll quality over time would work as a reasonable proxy for the rest of the Russian war economy. (View Post)

Nobody sensible looks to political leaders to give their life deeper meaning. That's not what they're there for. It's when people become fans of politicians, when they treat ultimately… (View Post)